that way I didn’t have to carry so many disks. By doing this, I could copy data to both sides. The first thing I did when I got a 5.25″ disk was punch a hole in the opposite side. So in tribute, let’s look at the many ways we used floppies throughout time. The format was threatened around 2000 by the Superdrive and the Zip drive, but those formats could not replace the floppy disk. By 1976, we saw the size reduce to 5.25″, then in 1982 the size dropped to 3.5″, while the capacity increased – first to 28KB, then 720KB, finally 1.4 MB.
Of course, the first floppy was produced back in 1971. The last disk will roll off the production line March 2011, so if you rely on this media, you might want to stock up on disks now. Twelve years after the format has been first produced for consumer devices, Sony has decided to end production of the floppy disk medium. I haven’t used floppy disks for a couple years now. I had a USB floppy, but I couldn’t tell you where that is. Today, I have probably one or two machines that has a floppy drive attached. So the floppy disk was an important part to my library. When USB drives came out, you could store files, but most computers would not recognize as a boot device. Couldn’t use CD’s because a lot of the computers didn’t have drives in the 90’s. Install discs, diagnostic discs and the one disk that would wipe a hard drive to DOD standards. My IT toolbox was filled with 3.5″ floppies in the 90’s until about 2006. Sony has seen this and decided to discontinue their production next year. USB drives and off-site storage options have made the 1.4 MB device outdated – Not to mention it’s only 1.4 MB. In the last five years, it pretty much outlived usefulness. The floppy disk has been around for a long time.
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